Bluzmann57
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Sun Sep-11-11 08:46 AM
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My Filipina wife asked a good question about 9/11 |
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She asked, "Why are people treating this like a holiday? Aren't holidays supposed for celebration?" My (somewhat inadequate) answer, "Some people misunderstand the term holiday and have decided to call this tragic day 'Patriot's Day'. Most of us don't consider it a holiday but as a day of mourning." She doesn't follow politics real closely, even though she figured on her own that fox lies, but she is very perceptive and is trying to get citizenship in the future. And when one thinks about it, holidays are celebrating something. July 4, Independence Day, Dec. 25, the birth of Jesus, January 1, the coming of a new year, etc. etc. 9/11 should in no way be considered as a holiday.
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Sun Sep-11-11 08:48 AM
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1. A day of remembrance, not a holiday. n/t |
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Sun Sep-11-11 08:51 AM
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2. Memorial Day is a holiday |
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People used to go down to the cemetery and put flowers on the graves. Now they go to the mall for the furniture sales.
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Sun Sep-11-11 08:51 AM
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The word holiday comes from Holy Day. So, the first holidays had religious significance and were not necessarily about celebration and fun, but instead commemoration and observance.
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Sun Sep-11-11 08:53 AM
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4. Tell your wife Welcome for me Bluzmann57 |
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Welcome to America, where in all our faults we still somewhat rock.
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:12 AM
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I still go to the cemetery and place flowers on the graves of my parents and brother on holidays or whenever I feel the need.
Today IS a day of rememberance.
If you don't want to hear/read about it.....go to the park.
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:19 AM
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My mother passed in July of 2001 and Dad is still with me. My family sees this as a day of rememberance.
(off topic - I like your avatar - Go Sparky)
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:45 AM
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Wish my Dad, well hell, my entire family, was still with me.
This day means alot to me....nothing like seeing your Dad cry cause he lost friends in those planes.
Have a nice Sunday!!!! :-)
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Bluzmann57
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:20 AM
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13. I'll sure tell her madokie |
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She loves this country and sometimes has trouble figuring why people, including me, gripe about things here in the USA. I guess it's all a matter of perspective.
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Sun Sep-11-11 08:54 AM
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5. I do not see this being treated as a holiday. Watching the family members |
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reading the names it appears to be anything but a holiday.
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:12 AM
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10. I need another box of kleenex. |
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It just makes you think, ya know?
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Sun Sep-11-11 08:54 AM
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6. Treating it like a holiday? Who on earth is treating it like a holiday? |
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Huh? I don't even know how to respond. It is a commemoration--a memorial-- a somber remembrance. Even our ridiculous corporate media is treating it somberly, as would be expected.
I just don't know what on earth you are talking about? Holiday? Good heavens, no.
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:18 AM
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11. Some calendars list this as "Patriot's Day" |
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Which sounds sort of like a holiday, especially to a person from outside the USA. And she's been watching fox noise until she figured out what liars they are (with some help of course :evilgrin:)
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:33 AM
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Edited on Sun Sep-11-11 09:35 AM by Bluenorthwest
What is her take on that? April 9 or the Monday nearest. "On April 9, 1942, 75,000 Filipino and American soldiers surrendered to the Japanese at the tip of the Bataan Peninsula, which juts into Manila Bay in the Philippines. For nearly five months, the troops had fought ferociously against overwhelming odds until they ran out of food and water, medical supplies and ammunition. As prisoners of war (POWs), they and thousands of Filipinos were taken to a camp run by the Japanese army. This grueling series of marches are now known as the Bataan Death March."
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:56 AM
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23. Sorry but I can not help but take offense |
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After spending the past several days feeling so emotionally raw and with tears very close to the surface--then seeing the tears of those family members and those of former President Clinton as he spoke in Shanksville yesterday.
Look, I'm not averse to criticizing our society and certainly our Government's actions the past decade--and I certainly have with those I've encountered myself overseas. But, I just can not believe that you would be expressing a nd sharing an accusation that we are treating this like a holiday. Do you see sale fliers for the mall? Are there fireworks scheduled in your area? Celebratory picnics and parades? Maybe a Lady Gaga concert?
Your Filipino friend/ SO deserves a clarification from someone who isn't just looking to criticize our own Nation so gratuitously and who will take the time to try to educate her. Plenty enough aspects of our "collective" national behavior deserving apology, given our reckless military actions. This is not.
Well, at least your post diverted my sadness. Now, I just feel dismayed....
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Sun Sep-11-11 05:57 PM
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Sorry I dismayed you. I was just repeating a conversation we had. I also didn't criticize the Govt's actions in my post. But you just go on believing what you want. People will do that anyway I guess.
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Sun Sep-11-11 06:20 PM
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We seem to talk past each other, for some reason...:shrug:
I certainly would be the first to criticize our government's actions. I HOPE you do so as well. That is not the point. :shrug:
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Sun Sep-11-11 06:03 PM
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31. Oh yeah, one more thing |
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She is not my s/o, my friend, or whatever you think. We are married and damn happy. I hope everyone is as happy as we are. Actually, she is my friend. The best friend I ever had. She is also my soulmate and the love of my life. I feel very fortunate that we found each other.
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Sun Sep-11-11 06:18 PM
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33. Sooo... she IS your friend... |
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I'm happy for you that you have found a true friend AND wife... (sorry, i missed that part).
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Mon Sep-12-11 04:43 AM
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37. So which is it? Wifey figured out FOX on her own, or with help? The OP stated |
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"...she figured on her own that fox lies..." and in this post you take partial credit.
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Mon Sep-12-11 04:54 AM
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38. They need to name it something else. "Patriots Day" is already taken, and it's not in September. |
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:04 AM
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7. Independence Day should be the only "true" national holiday |
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Edited on Sun Sep-11-11 09:04 AM by SoCalDem
If workers got the time off they deserved, we would not have to carve out "special" days that are political hot-potatoes.
Is there really a need to always "celebrate" events that are carnage-producing? Even the ending of those events, draws a clear line between the ones who survived it, and the ones who did not. No one needs to tell the families of the dead to miss them or to grieve for them Why is it a national requirement to make a big production out of it year after year, decade after decade?
I know that the spectacle producers need the work, and the bands like to play and the marchers like to march, but most of our "holidays" are not really "all-that".
New Year's Day is more of a football holiday MLK Day is a post office/school/bank holiday for most people President's Day squished some favorites together, so banks could close up Memorial Day is less meaningful when we are always at war Labor Day has lost its panache, since everyone seems to be having a hate-fest with labor-types. Veteran's Day ..(see memorial Day) Thanksgiving is the ultimate food-holiday in a time when many have nothing much to eat, or a place to eat it..and of course it's a football holiday too..and a reminder of how propaganda has spun settler v native american interactions.
and then we have Xmas..a religious holiday not even "celebrated" by most of the world's population, but glorified by so-called secular multi-cultural countries... a day off to unwrap all the plastic shit from China and eat
Of course all of these "holidays" no longer even come with a guaranteed day off with pay, since "service economies" must always be available to service anyone who desperately needs a taco on Christmas day..or a pair of plastic flipflops from a barrel at 7-11.
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:09 AM
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8. My mom told me yesterday about her church's picnic and "celebration" |
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I said "You mean memorial" "Oh yeah yeah it really isn't a celebration is it?"
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Mon Sep-12-11 01:05 PM
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39. There are definitions of 'celebration' that include ceremonies, observance, or commemoration. |
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Getting worked up over calling an 'observance' or 'service' a celebration is wasting a good work-up. It should be saved for something bigger.
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:21 AM
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14. I have yet to see anybody treating this like a holiday. nt |
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:23 AM
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15. Is she aware that 'Bataan and Coregidor Day' is a holiday in |
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Edited on Sun Sep-11-11 09:36 AM by Bluenorthwest
the Philippines? Commemorates 'the Batan death march' and all that. Is that a celebration? It is a National Holiday there. Seems to me anyone who understands that would understand that the entire world holds such days of memorial which are not 'supposed to be for celebration'.
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:29 AM
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16. can you give me eve ONE example of anyone treating this festively, like a holiday? |
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:46 AM
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21. plead read my reply #20 if I'm not on your ignore list yet. |
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:37 AM
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18. That is part of what is making me sick |
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The way everyone is running around waving the flag on a day that is a dark day in our history.
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:45 AM
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20. Oh so that's why I'm seeing flags and bunting everywhere!?! |
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Good grief. My area is decorated like it's memorial day with those uniquely georgia crosses with vets names on them sticking in the medians along roadways and there flags everywhere. I see patriotic decorations at subdivision entrances and everything. I was sooo confuzzled.
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Sun Sep-11-11 10:11 AM
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26. That doesn't mean people are happy about what happened. |
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Some people just go overboard with the flag decorations any chance they get. People might not be moping around looking sad, but that doesn't mean they are "celebrating". After 10 years it's understandable to not feel too much grief, but, it's not a happy remembrance, either.
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Sun Sep-11-11 10:14 AM
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27. At what point does "Partiots Day Sale! All Mattresses 20% off" become acceptable then? n/t |
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Mon Sep-12-11 01:07 PM
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40. A member in Cooking & Baking forum already reported some flyers. |
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I bet it wouldn't be too hard to find more examples.
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Sun Sep-11-11 06:22 PM
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35. but how is that a celebration ? |
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:52 AM
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22. With all the parades, bands and patriotic speeches about how great we are |
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It sure seems more like a celebration. We seem to be celebrating the deaths of the many multiple hundreds of thousands of innocent people in their own countries, we killed in retaliation for the blow back, the revenge that was 9/11. The 9/11 that the bu$h administration knew about, not only because the out going Clinton Administration told the incoming bu$h administration about with a two and a half in thick report, to within a week that something was going down, and also because other countries were trying to warn us, U.S. of the coming attack. Cheney shelved the report and ignored the warnings. They knew and Let It Happen On Purpose.
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Sun Sep-11-11 10:03 AM
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24. I don't think patriots day is for our people as it were. |
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Sun Sep-11-11 10:16 AM
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28. You're wife hit it on the head. Where are the parades? The Hallmark cards?? |
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As for parades...sadly some of the events a equivalent.
I've yet to see Greeting cards, but am sure there are some forms of them out there...
The "terrorists" haven't one in this aspect, but collective maudlin has...
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Sun Sep-11-11 10:21 AM
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29. Holiday has different meanings in the US (probly elsewhere too). |
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It can solemn, it can be important, or it can be a fun day.
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Sun Sep-11-11 06:24 PM
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36. it mostly means day off from work and school |
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shows how overworked we are. yet don't get much in return.
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Sun Sep-11-11 06:04 PM
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32. I just saw a poll on MSN home page |
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about whether 9/11 should be a holiday, and remarkably a majority said yes. I find that personally disgusting.
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